Since being on antibiotics my 3 month daughter’s milk intake has dropped and she is reluctant to feed My 3 month old daughter was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection 2.5 weeks ago and had to take antibiotics (Augmentin) for 1 week. During that week, her appetite reduced dramatically. She used to take 5.5oz each meal and only took 2-3oz while she was on antibiotics. She has since recovered and it’s been 1.5 weeks since her last dose of antibiotics but not only has her appetite not returned to normal, it has reduced even further. Now, she would only take 2oz and cries and cries. I have tried splitting her…

I want to use the routine but my 16 week baby cries during feeding and takes too little Please help me with a problem that your books don’t seem to address and it seems nobody can solve, including health visitors. I have a lovely baby boy who is 16 weeks and only drinks 17-20oz of milk per day. He was born at 38wks – 6lb 7oz and is an Indian baby. He was breastfed for the first 8 weeks but developed colic and mouth thrush at around 4 weeks so, being inexperienced, I put him on the bottle. He was only feeding for 5-6mins every 2-3hrs on the breast and…

At 14 weeks my daughter has begun to need an early morning feed again My daughter Niamh, who is now 14-weeks-old, was following the routines both with sleeping and feeding until just over 12 weeks. She then began waking again and needing a feed at 3/4am having slept through previously. I fed her for three nights then managed to settle her with water for a few nights but she is demanding a feed again, taking 5ozs which means her daytime routine is now not so good. She seems unwilling to settle for her daytime naps at all, and often wakes again after 20 minutes. She is then too tired to…

My 3 month baby is distraught during her bath time. Should I split the 5/6pm feed? Should I split the 6.15pm feed so my daughter gets a proportion of it at 5.15pm, as she becomes very grumpy at around 5.50pm(bath time) then starts whinging and crying non-stop until she becomes hysterical at 6.10pm! She was born with clubbed feet and wears boots with a bar for 23 out of 24 hours a day. They come off at 5.10pm for an hour (to have a bath and exercise) and I don’t know whether she is getting hysterical prior to them being put back on or whether I’m being ridiculous and she’s…

My 3.5-month-old son is difficult to feed, windy, and is waking in the night again My son is 16 weeks old. Over the last two weeks has become increasingly difficult to feed, and has started to wake in the night again, although he doesn’t appear to be hungry when he wakes. He dropped the night feed at around 11 weeks old yet, despite not feeding after 10.30pm, he is fairly disinterested in his 7am feed, taking around 100ml. Until recently, though, he has fed well at the other feeds. He has always had a problem with wind and has released a lot from his bottom since he was just a…

My 13-week-old baby has digestive problems and is taking less and less milk My daughter is my third baby on the CLB routine because it was such a success with older siblings. I started the routine even in hospital, but she still very quickly developed problems feeding. Initially breast fed, she gulped air as she fed, and as soon as the milk hit her stomach I could hear loud rumbling. She only fed for a bit before screaming, or feeding for a few minutes and refusing any more. Huge burps kept coming – excessive wind I think caused by ingesting so much at a feed. I introduced an expressed bottle…

How do I have a feeding routine with my 3.5 month old who suffers from reflux? I have always tried to follow the schedules, but firstly I could not properly breast feed, then my son suffered horribly from acid reflux in his first 2 months. After his first week of treatment with Zantac, he was angelic. His schedule just fell into place. Then things went very wrong and he continues to buck and thrash when I try to initially give him his bottle. He will settle after a few minutes, but then he has exhausted himself so, that he can barely take 4oz at a time. The only time of…